Suparno meets Pranab Mukherjee
Bhubaneswar: Chairman of Smt Nandini Satpathy Memorial Trust (SNSMT) Suparno Satpathy met President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on Wednesday. During the half-an-hour meeting, Satpathy handed over a letter to the President.
Issues relating to Odisha such as mindless industrialisation, increasing criminal activities, corruption by the ruling party, environmental concerns, chaos in the social fabric and CTl projects have found place in the letter. The issues were also discussed during the meeting.
Seminar on Utkal DiWas held in city
Bhubaneswar: A seminar on 'Swatanrta Utkal Pradesh: 77 Barsara Yatra' was organised by the Nehru Institute of Youth Affairs here on Monday on the occasion of the 77th Utakl Divas. Freedom fighter and former Rajya Sabha member Bhabani Charan Patnaik was the chief guest. Corporater Padmanava Das attending as a guest of honour spoke on Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das and education and culture of Odisha. Chief speaker Prof Niranjan Padhi pointed out that it took 76 long years to change the name the State from Orissa to Odisha. Among others, Bani Brata Tripathy, Umesh Nanda, Dasarathi Sethi, Pratap Das, Kamal Prasad Nayak and Asit Jena were present.
Nalco posts record sales at Rs 7,200 cr
Bhubaneswar: Nalco has reported record sales of over Rs 7,200 crore and foreign exchange earnings of Rs 3,400 crore for 2012-13 fiscal against sales of Rs 6,500 crore and export turnover of Rs 2,569 crore in 2011-12. Besides, the Central PSU has achieved the highest-ever bauxite production of 54.19 lakh tonnes against the previous best of 50.03 lakh tonnes achieved in the previous fiscal. However, the metal production slumped marginally from 4.13 lakh tonnes to 4.03 lakh tonnes due to the planned shutdown of pot shells of the smelter. "Besides coal shortage, the dwindling lME prices of metal forced the company to cut down its production of metal to some extent, said Nalco CMD Ansuman Das.
Women's wear outlet opened in city
Bhubaneswar: BIBA, a leading name in branded ethnic wear for women, opened its flagship store in the city on Tuesday. Inaugurating the store, its Managing Director Siddhartha Bindra expressed his delight over the event and hoped to enhance the customers' shopping experience with the new store. The spacious store has products for all age categories.